As many of you probably heard, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Colleen Hauser after she and her 13-year old son Daniel left Minnesota on May 19, to avoid chemotherapy treatment.
Daniel has Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of cancer typically treated with chemo and radiation.
Their refusal to cooperate with the standard treatment for his condition led to a medical neglect petition, and a Brown County District Court Judge took custody away from his parents. How would you feel if this was you and your child?
It’s hard to believe, but Interpol was notified, and the U.S. Marshal Service was being deployed to Mexico in search of this mother and her child. There only crime was to say “No thank you” to the conventional medical treatment.
According to the Associated Press, there have been at least five instances in the U.S. in recent years in which parents fled with a sick child to avoid a form of medical treatment that they did not want.
Many parents are increasingly being cut out of the decision-making process about what’s in their child’s best interest with regards to their health not only with these situations but also with other types of medical care.
Instances like these should be a wakeup call for parents everywhere. There’s something seriously wrong going on here.
“I am shocked at the court’s ruling. For the court to take custody, disregard the parents’ right to parent, and dismiss the child’s own wishes is a travesty. Our Constitution affords certain rights, and the court has completely trampled on them. It is still unclear as to what exactly ‘the compelling state interest’ is that the court used to justify this ruling.” Said Gretchen DuBeau Executive Director of the American Association for Health Freedom.
Most states have laws that allow parents to refuse treatment on religious grounds. Minnesota, however, removed this right two decades ago with the help of Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Caplan has stated that “religious exceptions are bad public policy because effective medical treatment for a child shouldn’t be sacrificed for a parent’s beliefs.”
It’s shocking but true that, increasingly, you .are being told to sacrifice your beliefs as to what’s in the best interest of your child, and simply go along with a program that is designed to uphold the status quo of conventional medicine rather than promote true health.